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Nulli flebilior quam mihi! When earth covers him, not a better man will be left on its face. Tibi constabat. Ever the servant of Duty and of his God, and letting no man note in him a sign that he thought himself better than the ruck.... God bless you! Don't resign wait. On December 15th Reeve went to Paris alone. His Journal notes: 17th. Opera 'Aida, with the Comte de Paris and the Duc d'Aumale.
"As I am not conscious of any crime," said he, "I do not doubt of being able to make a proper defence, Nil conscire sibi nulli pallescere culpæ." He was corrected by Mr. Pulteney; but insisted on his being in the right, and actually laid a wager on the justness of the quotation. Mr.
"Who would not rather preserve the purity of his child than wish him to attain the whole circle of arts and sciences? which, by the bye, he may learn in the classes of a private school; for I would not be vain, but I esteem myself to be second to none, nulli secundum, in teaching these things; so that a lad may have as much learning in a private as in a public education."
The house was soon in quiet, but the boy sat long by the decaying embers of the fire, musing over the words "he shall be stripped of his rank and titles" then took from his vest a small gold locket. It contained a lock of hair two persons' hair entwined together, dark and fair but it bore the impress of a coronet, and the proud motto, "Nulli Secundi."
It was the French chronologist, Scaliger, who in the sixteenth century asserted, "nulli melius piraticam exercent quam Angli"; and although he had no need to cross the Channel to find men proficient in this primitive calling, the remark applies to the England of his time with a force which we to-day scarcely realise.
But another inscription over the solid oak door encouraged me to enter: "PORTA PATENS ESTO, NULLI CLAUDARIS HONESTO." I therefore opened the inner door with some difficulty, for it was heavy and cumbersome, and found myself in the hall. Although nothing remarkable met my eye, I was delighted to find everything in keeping with the place.
Contrast the spirit of Horace in the third Ode of the third book: "Hac arte Pollux hac vagus Hercules Enisus arces attigit igneas; Quos inter Augustus recumbens Purpureo bibit ore nectar," with the fierce irony of Lucan: "Mortalis nulli Sunt curata deo; cladis tamen huius habemus Vindictam, quantam terris dare numina fas est.
Prince Charles Buonaparte, nephew to the late Emperor Napoleon, aided by some of the most scientific gentlemen of Pennsylvania, is continuing this valuable and interesting publication. New York, with great propriety, may be called the commercial capital of the new world: Urbs augusta potens, nulli cessura. Ere long it will be on the coast of North America what Tyre once was on that of Syria.
And throughout the coming ages the world will be the better because in the last half of the eighteenth century there lived, labored, and died in the midst of his labors one John Howard, the Philanthropist. By GERTRUDE VAN RENSSELAER WICKHAM Was Ethan Allen a hero or a humbug? a patriot or a pretender? Ask Vermont and she cries "Nulli secundus!" Ask New York and the reply is "Ad referendum."
"The Kurumbas of Nulli," says Walhouse, "one of the wildest Nilgherry declivities, come up annually to worship at one of the dolmens on the table-land above, in which they say one of their old gods resides.
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